| 单词 | jack |
| 释义 | jack (once / 2126 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5n 6n 7n 8n 9n 10n 11n 12v If you're ever stranded beside the highway with a flat tire, what you need is a jack and a spare tire. With a jack, you can lift the car slightly off the ground and change the tire. Most cars have an emergency jack in the trunk, and repair shops have larger jacks, sometimes called "garage jacks," that can raise the car high enough for a mechanic to work underneath it. To lift this way is to jack something. Other kinds of jacks include game pieces and playing cards. In Middle English, as now, the name Jack was used for "ordinary guy," a meaning that transferred to basic tools, generic men, and male animals. WORD FAMILYjack: jacked, jacking, jacks USAGE EXAMPLESThere’s no shortage of generous storage cubbies, USB jacks and power ports throughout the vehicle, either. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Boeing is testing a system with the completed wings each supported by three giant jacks. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) The bright stock jack chinook run is about half the recent 10-year average. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) 1 1n tool for exerting pressure or lifting Hypo|Hyper bumper jack a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper jackscrew, screw jackscrew-operated jack tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation 2v lift with a special device 2jack up the car so you can change the tire Syn|Hyper jack up bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise raise from a lower to a higher position n someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor 3Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper laborer, labourer, manual laborer Paul Bunyan a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada Ali Babathe fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer a person who tills the soil for a living braceroa Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II cleanersomeone whose occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourera laborer who works by the day; for daily wages diggera laborer who digs dishwashersomeone who washes dishes drudge, galley slave, navvy, peona laborer who is obliged to do menial work gandy dancera laborer in a railroad maintenance gang gravediggera person who earns a living by digging graves hewera person who hews hand, hired hand, hired mana hired laborer on a farm or ranch hod carrier, hodmana laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers gipsy, gypsy, itineranta laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumbermana person who fells trees miner, mineworkerlaborer who works in a mine mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinnera worker who drives mules platelayer, tracklayera workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks portera person employed to carry luggage and supplies rail-splitter, splittera laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences sawyerone who is employed to saw wood section handa laborer assigned to a section gang sprayera worker who applies spray to a surface stackera laborer who builds up a stack or pile steeplejacksomeone who builds or maintains very tall structures dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedorea laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port fireman, stokera laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) woodcuttercuts down trees and chops wood as a job wreckersomeone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardmana laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, womana human female employed to do housework chimneysweep, chimneysweeper, sweepsomeone who cleans soot from chimneys coal miner, collier, pitmansomeone who works in a coal mine ditch digger, mud diggera laborer who digs ditches farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhanda hired hand on a farm gold digger, gold miner, gold pannera miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field drover, herder, herdsmansomeone who drives a herd housebreaker, housewreckera wrecker of houses knackersomeone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them peasantone of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers placer minera miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging prospectorsomeone who explores an area for mineral deposits ranch handa hired hand on a ranch redcapa porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station scorera logger who marks trees to be felled scourersomeone who cleanses by scouring cropper, sharecrop farmer, sharecroppersmall farmers and tenants skycapa porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy, stablemansomeone employed in a stable to take care of the horses street cleaner, street sweepera worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department) strip minera miner who does strip mining swagger, swaggie, swagmanan itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work tinkerformerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living trenchersomeone who digs trenches window cleanersomeone who cleans windows for pay working man, working person, workingman, workman an employee who performs manual or industrial labor n a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling 4Hyper ball round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games n game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks 5Syn|Hyper jackstones game equipment equipment or apparatus used in playing a game n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince 6Syn|Hyper knave court card, face card, picture card one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face n any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas 7Hypo|Hyper Caranx hippos, crevalle jack, jack crevalle fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Caranx bartholomaei, yellow jackfish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Caranx crysos, blue runner, runnerfish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil Elagatis bipinnulata, rainbow runnerstreamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish leatherjack, leatherjacketany of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish, threadfishfish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins amberfish, amberjackany of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes Seriola dorsalis, yellowtailgame fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin Seriola zonata, banded rudderfish, rudderfishfish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters Seriola grandis, kingfishlarge game fish of Australia and New Zealand carangid, carangid fish a percoid fish of the family Carangidae n male donkey 8Syn|Hyper jackass ass hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse n an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug 9Hypo|Hyper phone jack, telephone jack a jack for plugging in a telephone electrical device a device that produces or is powered by electricity n immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted 10Syn|Hyper jackfruit, jak edible fruit edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh n small flag indicating a ship's nationality 11Hyper flag emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design n a small worthless amount 12you don't know jack Syn|Hyper diddley, diddly, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, squat small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude v hunt with a jacklight Syn|Hyper jacklight hunt, hunt down, run, track down pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) Jack (once / 100 pages) n WORD FAMILY Jack USAGE EXAMPLESFreshman Jack Jones played at cornerback in his absence, and Burnett returned punts. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Last year's victor was Jack Garratt, who praised the "very diverse" range of acts on the 2017 list, and encouraged fans to embrace new talent. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) “Nothing is easy about this league,” coach Jack Del Rio said. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) n a man who serves as a sailor Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper Jack-tar, gob, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar Sir John Hawkins English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595) Captain KiddScottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701) able seaman, able-bodied seaman a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n, bosuna petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen deckhand, roustabouta member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor helmsman, steerer, steersmanthe person who steers a ship bargee, bargeman, lightermansomeone who operates a barge officer, ship's officera person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel pilota person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor sea lawyeran argumentative and contentious seaman whalera seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales cox, coxswainthe helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew captain, master, sea captain, skipperan officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship first mate, matethe officer below the master on a commercial ship privateer, privateersmanan officer or crew member of a privateer purseran officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare navigator, sailing masterthe ship's officer in charge of navigation stewardthe ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements supercargoan officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase crewman, sailor any member of a ship's crew |
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